Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 2 days agoHard to avoid using services that do it when it’s your own government that forces the sites & services you use to do this
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
‘Forces’ should not even be used in this context. These companies are all too happy to be able to get even more PII from everyone.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Some of them. Yes, many others not so much. Are you not realizing the thread you’re commenting on here?
That smaller site services and companies who really don’t want to collect this data are going to be forced to at an expense that may be too high for their entry point into the market they’re trying to work in?
Or even worse websites or services that are hosted for free may have to incur costs they cannot afford for data they don’t want to collect.